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Jennie has written up a blog review of Last.fm, in particular how Last.fm uses tags to help make recommendations - she shows the tag cloud for the Jonas Brothers and even points out that the Jonas Brothers is getting tag-spammed with metal.

I think she's getting ready to do a few slides about hacking and social tags at the tutorial that Elias and I are giving at ISMIR this year. That takes some of pressure off me for sure.

I also noticed that in her post she cleaned up the language in the tags. Pop artists tend to attract the haters that enjoy tagging vandalism. The Jonas Brothers tag cloud is filled with words that a typical Jonas Brother fan should not be exposed to. Perhaps, Last.fm needs a safe-tags setting to filter out the profanities so my 13 year old daughter doesn't have to.

My colleague, Steve is always bragging about how he's a second generation searchguy (his Dad did IR on punch cards). But now I can top him with my second generation music folksonomist progeny. In your face, Steve!